Jeremiah 39 – 41

Note carefully 40:2, 3. Could the matter be better summed up than in these words of a heathen officer?
Cf. Prov. 29:1; Is. 30:9-14.

Most Christians are too ready to believe evil of others. Gedaliah was the opposite.
What can we learn from this example?
Note that as a public leader he had responsibility for others (40:10; 41:10) as well as for himself.

Notes

39:4. ‘Between the two walls’: i.e., of the city, probably ‘the wall along the west side of the east hill’ (Driver).

39:5. ‘Riblah’: in the far north, fifty miles south of Hamath.

41:1. Ishmael was probably jealous that Gedaliah had been appointed governor, and sought to get the remnant of the Jews under his control (41:10).